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Cullen S. Hendrix (Denver): Kicking a Crude Habit: Diversifying Away from Oil and Gas in the 21st Century. Solar employs more workers than coal, oil and natural gas combined. The global coal boom finally seems to be winding down: There may be hope for the climate after all. Five ways to think about the remarkable slowdown in global CO2 emissions. A beginner’s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy (and more). Emma Gilchrist on 6 charts that show Trump isn’t stopping the renewable energy revolution any time soon. What if there were a Moore’s Law for reducing carbon emissions? Researchers hope that a simple rule could help governments around the world achieve the goal of zero emissions.

Neil Howard (Antwerp): Basic Income and the Anti-Slavery Movement. Asbjorn Melkevik (Harvard): No Malibu Surfer Left Behind: Three Tales About Market Coercion (“This article examines the question of private coercion in market societies, arguing for an unconditional basic income guarantee from a classical liberal viewpoint”). Akash Kapur reviewsUtopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman (and more and more and more) and Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght. This Kenyan village is a laboratory for the biggest basic income experiment ever (and more). Steven Pearlstein on how to ensure everyone a guaranteed basic income.

Agner Fog (DTU): Why are Cultures Warlike or Peaceful? Introducing Regality Theory. From the Brains Blog, a symposium on Alex Madva’s “A Plea for Anti-Anti-Individualism”. Guantanamo Redux: John Bellinger on why it was opened and why it should be closed (and not enlarged). Pauli Murray was an architect of the civil-rights struggle and the women’s movement — why haven’t you heard of her? Kathryn Schulz reviewsJane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg. It’s not just Fox: Why women don’t report sexual harassment. Preet Bharara links firing to Trump team’s “helter-skelter incompetence”. What kind of mind creates a book like Sapiens? Ezra Klein interviews Yuval Harari on how meditation made him a better historian.

Pippa Norris (Harvard): Is Western Democracy Backsliding? Diagnosing the Risks. America’s two-front war of ideas: There’s no consensus on the greatest ideological threat to the United States. Authoritarianism gets smart: Modern authoritarian states excel at keeping up democratic appearances, while keeping the real sources of their power inscrutable and so safe from public scrutiny. Dirty foreign money’s existential threat to democracy: Cultivating corrupt political proxies in order to sow chaos in the West is a game as old as the Comintern itself — but a set of technological, social, political, and above all financial innovations have made the old playbook much more effective.